Safety professionals have begun the transition from thinking about forklift safety from the traditional reactive sense, to a more forward thinking proactive safety approach. Being able to rethink forklift safety can bring deeper understanding on the way the facility works in ways that safety professionals didn’t know existed. Do you believe it’s time to rethink forklift safety? Let’s take a look at a few ways:
- Reactive to Proactive: One change ahead is the forklift inspection. In many facilities it is still being done in a reactive way with paper and a clipboard. The new proactive way is to digitalize the process. However just like pencil whipping, digital whipping can also exist. That’s why being proactive means ensuring the randomization feature is on. Now you can change the order and maybe even update the questions to keep the answers as accurate as possible.
- Reactive to Proactive: Pedestrian Detection using AI and machine learning technology is here for some forklift safety systems, but not all. This technology has many nervous, but in this case, it is used for good. It has the intelligence to recognize and know the difference between a person and an object. Once identified, it will warn the driver that one of those two items are within the path.
This AI and ML technology can be used to improve forklift safety. Contact us today to learn more.